ELA Community Night Crossword

2. ICE (Introduce, Cite, Explain) is the format we use to create in-text ____.
5. The central idea is the ____ of a text which is worded in a specific way to convey what a particular text is about.
6. In Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman, Blake has to save himself, his brother, and his friends by surviving ____ deadly rides by dawn.
7. A topic sentence states the ____ of the paragraph and guides all detail sentences.
8. American ____ families were torn apart when children were sent to boarding schools.
10. The Emmett Till Case became the ____ that sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
12. The AANHPI acronym is an umbrella term that encompasses Asian Americans, Native ____, and Pacific Islanders.
13. A possible ____ of The Running Dream is “it takes perseverance to overcome adversity.”
15. A conflict is a ____ between opposing forces, usually between a protagonist and an external or internal obstacle.
16. All texts we studied about the Little Rock Nine share a common ____: The students known as the Little Rock Nine faced violence and discrimination when they tried to enter Central High School.

1. The theme is a ____ that you learn from that story that can also apply to other stories.
2. Helen Stoner struggled with an internal ____ when she feared for her life while living with her stepfather, Dr. Roylott.
3. Olympics Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the ____ to show that children with disabilities can accomplish great things.
4. Characterization is what writers do to ____ the personalities of specific characters in their work.
5. Context clues are used to help determine the ____ of unknown words in a text.
9. “According to the article ‘Colleges Are Watching Your Social Media Behavior’,” is an example of a signal phrase for an ____ citation.
11. The story of Sylvia Mendez shows how Hispanics/Latinos were ____ and sent to the “Mexican” schools.
14. A concluding sentence ____ the paragraph and relates to the topic sentence.